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Gail Brown is a Canadian musician who was the first female bagpipe player to play in the World Pipe Band Championships.She is also the first female bagpiper to win the highest level competition in the World Pipe Band Championships in 1973, with the Shotts & Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band.
Margaret was pipe major of Cullen Pipe Band from Cork when the band became world champions in Grade 3B in 2007. [ 2 ] While in Scotland she joined the grade 1 Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Pipe Band and with them won the World Pipe Band Championships in 2000. [ 2 ]
The kaba gaida ('large gaida' [1]) or rodopska gaida (Rhodope gaida), is the bagpipe of the central Rhodope mountains, it is a distinctive symbol of Bulgarian folk music. It is made from wood, horn, animal skin and cotton, and is similar to the gaida, but lower pitched and usually with a larger bag. The chanter has a specific curve at the end ...
Since Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" in 2009, every video that has reached the top of the "most-viewed YouTube videos" list has been a music video. In November 2005, a Nike advertisement featuring Brazilian football player Ronaldinho became the first video to reach 1,000,000 views. [ 1 ]
Other modern Galician bagpipe players include Xosé Manuel Budiño and Susana Seivane. Seivane is especially notable as the first major female player, paving the way for many more women in a previously male-dominated field. Galicia's most popular singers are also mostly female, including Uxía, Sonia Lebedynski and Mercedes Peón.
As if that wasn't enough, he encourages everyone to *sing* along, but Phoebe decides to make bagpipe noise and tears ensue. Watch the amazing clip that's making the rounds on Facebook below ...
The Queen’s Piper will help close her state funeral with a rendition of the traditional piece Sleep, Dearie, Sleep. Pipe Major Paul Burns, the monarch’s personal player at the time of her ...
One history of the usage of bagpipe music by the armies of the Commonwealth during World War I reported that the troops were played the "crooning, hoping, sobbing of 'Lord Lovat's Lament,' and so went on from hour to hour through the emptiness of Southern Germany."